Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-03-19
LOCAL JOTS.


again tonight.
There was not even standing room left
at the matinee this afternoon.
The Salt Lake & Fort Douglas road is
being pushed ahead very rapidly.
The Mammoth mine has declared divi-
dends to be paid on the lst of April.
Ninety persons came into Ogden
on the G.. 2. from the West this morning.
A case of scarlet fever is reported on
Franklin Avenue. The onimous yellow
flag is out.
If the speculation now going on does
not mean boom, will somebody please
arise and explain it?
Drop into this office and hear the
canary bird accompaniment to our fore
mans Comanche yell.
The effects of the good time coming
are already commencing to be felt.
Business is picking up.
The class attending Judge Sutherland's
law lectures is largely increasing. The
course is a popular one.
John Rooster had an eye removed by
Drs. Benedict and Bliss yesterday. The
gentleman is out to-day.
Gibbons Grave" the gulch which
connects Stockton with the mines, is fast
becoming cleared of snow.
Armstrong and Mooney who were ar
rested yesterday for drunkenness were
tried and fined SIS each to-day.
To-day the wires are down and in bad
working order, and consequently our tele-
graph report is somewhat meagre.
1 love to see the lightnings flash
And hear the sed winds moan.
| also want to know who makes the hash
When dine away from home.
Miss Martha Neff has recently pur-
chased a superb phaeton and now takes
her evening drives in a handsome and
bon-ton rig.
Last evening the employees of Cum
nington & Co.'s grocery store presented
Mr. Cunnington with gold-headed cane
in honor of his 5lst birthday.
In the case of the People of Utah VS..
the defendant pleaded not guilty and his
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The DEMOCRAT invites its friends and
the public at large to call in and look
through the best appointed printing and
binding establishment in the West.
He whooped and he howled, and
walked down the street on his ear, with
a very bad eye and a villainous scowl,
because there was bubbles on his beer.
The Rev. J. B. Thrall will preach a
sermon especially for young men at the
Congregational Church tomorrow. Go
around boys and learn something to your
advantage.
The model barroom of A. J. Taysum &
Co. will open up tonight The best
lunch that can be had will be spread for
the friends of Mr. Taysum and G. V.
Whiting, who will assist Mr.. T. in the
management of his business.
There is every reason to expect that the
coming summer will be a lively one.
There is plenty of snow in the mountains
to furnish water for the agriculturalist.
The mines also in Dry Canyon, Tintic,
Stockton and Park City are continually
Frightening up.
Several capitalists, who are anxious to
buy real estate in this city, complain that
they have offered the sum asked for diff
ferent properties on.several different occa-
sions, and in each instance the Mormon
owners fearing something (they did not
know what, went back on their own
propositions.
Preparations for the great event OF the
season, the Paper Carnival, are progress
ing finely. The second rehearsal of the
minuet took place on the 18th, and judg-
ing from the zest and grace of the partici-
pants, it will be grand feature in the
carnival. The costumes are to be varied
and unique, and any one failing to secure
a ticket will regret it in after years.
Remember it is given for sweet charity Is
sake.